Best raises & asks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Friends in the Midwest often ask me what it's like to raise a family in Los Angeles. I say it's just like where they are, but warmer and with more traffic. I also tell them people here seem a bit more tolerant of those who are different.”

People Different Seems Asks Bits Raises Ask Me Los Angeles Traffic Midwest

Author:Steven Levitan

“Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.”

Science Asks Raises Fulfillment Questioning Outdated

Book:On Charisma and Institution Building

Source: On Charisma and Institution Building

“We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will.”

Hands Age Asks Secret Company Divine Crosses Accounts Raises Embrace Lips Refuse Cups Faithful Remembrance Pledge Great Company

Book:Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons

Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons

“Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise their hands because young women don't want to be associated with it anymore because they know it means male-bashing, it means being a victim, and it means being bitter and angry.”

Knows Want Mean Hands Young Asks Groups College Raises Victim Angry Males Feminist Bitter Young Women Campus College Campus

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.”

People Ifs Children Asks Daughter Raises Ask Me My Daughter Village Lectures Doing Good Oxford Our Daughter Your Daughter Oxford University It Takes A Village It Takes A Village To Raise A Child Village To Raise A Child

Author:Kanye West

“A man loves a woman so much, he asks her to marry - to change her name, quit her job, have and raise his babies, be home when he gets there, move where his job is. You can hardly imagine what he might ask if he didn't love her.”

Ifs Men Home Might Jobs Moving Asks Names Imagine Baby Raises Quitting

Author:Gabrielle Burton

“I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.”

Enough Asks Answers Four Raises Eight Working It Incomplete

Author:Tobin Bell

“When, President Bush asks me to go with his father to the Tsunami impacted areas and help raise money, I was thrilled to do that, because I think we have to always keep looking for common ground.”

Thinking Helping Asks Father President Common Areas Raises Ask Me President Bush Common Ground Tsunami

Author:William J. Clinton

“Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read!”

Character Action Asks Four Mystery Sea Land Century Adventure Summer Raises Hunters Pirate Colorful Land And Sea Great Summer

Author:Michael Connelly

“A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.”

Giving Doe Asks Levels Comfortable Raises Disciple

Book:Money, Possessions, and Eternity

Source: Money, Possessions, and Eternity

“The American people want to raise the minimum wage. Every poll tells us that. That bill will not get to the floor of the Senate. The American people want to ask the rich to pay more in taxes. But the legislation that will get to the floor is tax breaks for billionaires.”

People Want Asks Pay Break Rich Taxes Raises Bills Senate Minimum Legislation Polls Billionaire Minimum Wage Tax Breaks

Author:Bernie Sanders

“The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.”

Men Want Has Beens Asks Work Chance Wife He Man Raises Reincarnation

Author:Earl Wilson

“A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in.”

“Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.”

Wells I Can Three Asks Interest Millions Trouble Land Difficulty Raises Investing

Author:Pliny the Younger

“Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you're in action. Ask yourself, "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" There's an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.”

Thinking Want Doe Self Helping Happens Action Desire Asks Goal Animal Achieve Self Esteem Raises Luck Instinct Esteem Good Luck

Author:Barbara Sher

“We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.”

Wells Seems Government Asks Easy Difficult Raises Wrecks Biosphere

Book:Heat: how to stop the planet from burning

Source: Heat: how to stop the planet from burning

“I'm going to ask the three executives here to raise their hand if they flew here commercial. Let the record show no hands went up. Second, I'm going to ask you to raise your hand if you're planning to sell your jet in place now and fly back commercial. Let the record show no hands went up.”

Ifs Shows Hands Three Asks Records Raises Sells Planning Executives Flew Jet

Author:Brad Sherman

“The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.”

People Mean Self Values Asks Stuff Interest My Own Class Middle Taxes Vote Raises Election Raised Middle Class Self Interest

Author:Matt Damon

“We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before. It raises questions, so that when peculiar little accidents happen, you ask whether there is something else at work in your life.”

Looks Littles Happens Asks Saws Our Lives Trouble Raises Curiosity Accidents Sickness Peculiar Oddities Accidents Happen Raises Questions

Author:James Hillman

“The CEO should ask what he or she can do to raise the organization's curiosity quotient. One way to do this is to seek to learn more about current or prospective customers, not to figure out which segmentation model to slot them into, but to really understand them as human beings. Another is to live at the intersections where innovation magic occurs.”

Way Should Humans Asks Can Do Human Beings Magic Figures Models Organization Innovation Raises Curiosity Currents Customers One Way Ceo Intersections

Author:Scott D. Anthony

“Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it's also our economic center. And there are a lot of people here who should ask some tough questions before handing over campaign contributions to people who were really playing chicken with our whole economy.”

“We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion - it's actually an okay thing.”

Needs Asks Pay Okay Raises Promotion

Author:Jessica Chastain

“I can tell you that my experience has been that the gentlemen are more likely to come and ask for the order, ask for the raise, ask for the promotion, and that the women are less likely to do so.”

Has Beens I Can Order Asks Raises Gentleman Promotion

Author:Sallie Krawcheck

“I asked one retailer, I said, "Let me ask you, are you going to raise prices next year?" They looked at me and said, "Not only are we not going to raise prices, we're going to have to lower prices, increase the quality of the goods, and turn the inventory quicker."”

Years Said Turns Next Asks Quality Let Me Increase Raises Goods Next Year Inventory Retailers

Author:Ken Moelis

“As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.”

Knows Mean Doe Kids Mother Asks Parent Effort Responsibility Mom Findings Raises Advertisements Best Effort Advertising Agencies Avalanches

Author:Michelle Obama

“I don't understand why they trippin', If you ask me, Flow is just as nice as, I admit the propane, I just spit, probably, Just raise the gas prices, Everybody in the club, Try and get as fresh as me, What you want dog, Trying to stay recession free, And spit, refreshly.”

Ifs Want Trying Asks Nice Dog Flow Raises Clubs What You Want Ask Me Gas Spit Recessions Gas Prices Propane

Author:Kanye West

“We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.”

Should Asks Weak Increase Raises Dormant Wavering

Book:Commentary on Psalms

Source: Commentary on Psalms

“We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.”

Giving Stills Whole Certain Asks Poverty Society Produce One Day Raises Moved Misery Aids Eras Agony Highways Beggar Edifice Root Cause

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.”

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.”

Turns Evil Asks Flower Ought Roots Raises Bitter Occasions

Author:Leigh Hunt

“Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?”

People Giving Firsts Important Asks Ability Levels Higher Performances Raises Perseverance Ask Me Mentality Higher Level

Author:Dan Gable

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